This is the longest 9

...or should I say 10 months.

I have been pregnant since August, and when you do the math, I am 6 months pregnant and still have 4 months to go. Excuse me, but I know I was not the best in math in school but isn't 6 + 4=10?! See...pregnancy is 10 months long, not 9. I have been pregnant since the beginning of the school year, and will be pregnant almost to the end of the school year. That is a long time if you look at it that way.

I am starting to have a hard time getting up and down off the floor.

And now several people have asked if I am carrying twins.

Nope...I just get big people!

Remember all of my other pregnancies!? How soon we forget.

And now everybody wants to touch my stomach! And I get a lot of looks. And open mouth gasps as they count my kids and look at my belly. 1, 2, 3, 4 and WOW! You are going to have 5 kids.

I have also heard? So, which ones are yours? Do you do daycare? Nope, and nope.

They are all mine thank you very much!!

I also get...

You are crazy!

You are brave!

We also hear how expensive these kids are going to be, especially when we send them all to university. All 5 kids to university, at the same time? I ask you this...Did you go to university? Did your parents pay for your education? I don't think all of our kids would chose this route, but if they do...we will decide what to do at that point!

Oh wow...3 girls...I feel sorry for you. Oh, poor Cameron with all of those sisters. Feel sorry for me? I don't. We will have 3 awesome girls, who will eventually grow up to be outstanding members of our community! We are raising little adults...not babies!

As for Cameron, you feel sorry for him? He has his own room, he has good friends, and when he is 16 he is going to have all of these sisters...with good looking friends. So many girls to date!

I feel sorry for the people who choose a small family or even not to have kids. Because when we add to our family, our love does not just double, it multiplies.

We have a lot of joy in our lives. No, I don't think we will ever be rich in a monetary sense, but rich with love and a family of 5 kids! Think of those Christmas dinners 10 years from now! Wow. It is going to be so fun!! I have so much to look forward to. We all do.

It does take a special type of parent to raise a large family! It is hard work, tiring, frustrating, gives you grey hair and wrinkles, sleepless nights, joy and pain. I am glad I am a Mom to my kids because really I was born to do this! I could go out and work, but I am so GLAD that we made the choice of making it a priority to have me stay home with the kids. I am truly blessed to have a husband that gives his best every day to make that happen. Cliff is the hardest working 33 year old that I have ever met. He is a great husband, and super dad to all of his kids! He is hands on, and so great. I cannot imagine life without him. He makes the household what it is! Without Cliff life wouldn't be as great as it is!

This stage of life goes too fast, and I am so blessed to be able to be the one at home with them! I cherish every moment. Soon, this phase of diapers, preschool, school and the business of raising a newborn, a toddler, two preschoolers and a grade schooler will be no more.

My wish and prayer is that our kids grow up to know that they were loved and cared for with a total love and devotion. And that they knew that we were there for them every step of the way. I want them to grow up knowing this!! And hopefully raise these 5 kids up right!! So that they will do the same with our grandchildren and great grandchildren!